Andrew founded raceweek in 2019 to bring more attention to junior motorsport categories. He runs the site alongside a career as a full-time news journalist and has attended 12 grands prix.
USF2000
Toowoomba native Cameron Shields has been officially announced as the second Australian to join the Cooper Tires USF2000 grid for 2019. Shields, who simultaneously competed in Australian Formula 3, Formula 4, and Formula Ford in 2018, joins the Chicago-based Newman Wachs Racing (NWR) for his fifth year in cars, having
USF2000
18 year-old Cameron Shields may well be poised to announce he has secured a 2019 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship seat after a teaser went live on his social media. View this post on Instagram #TeamCooperTire #RoadToIndy #CS73 #IndyCar #SAHOFScholarshipHolder A post shared by Cameron Shields (@cameronshields73) on Feb 13, 2019
USF2000
Australian Formula Ford Champion, and winner of the Mazda Road to Indy Scholarship, Hunter McElrea, has announced that he will race in the #22 car for Pabst Racing in the 2019 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship. McElrea, who won 13 out of 21 races in the 2018 Australian Formula Ford Championship,
Australian Formula 4
Eighteen year-old Melburnian Luis Leeds will contest the CAMS PAYCE Australian Formula 4 Championship, in what appears to be the first official driver announcement for the 2019 season. Leeds wrote on Instagram: STOKED TO RETURN AND BE BACK IN A RACE SEAT FOR 2019 IN @formula4au WITH @agisport AND @23redracing
Toyota Racing Series
After five weeks, fifteen races, and an intense championship battle, your 2019 Castrol Toyota Racing Series champion is rookie Liam Lawson! Read our full race report here. Read our interview with Liam Lawson here.
Toyota Racing Series
Liam Lawson has won the 64th New Zealand Grand Prix and the 2019 Castrol Toyota Racing Series after Marcus Armstrong was awarded a five-second racing penalty. Liam Lawson had excellent drive off the race start, passing polesitter Lucas Auer into the first corner. Marcus Armstrong, the other championship contender, was
Toyota Racing Series
Toyota Racing New Zealand have awarded Marcus Armstrong a five-second penalty in Race 2 at Manfeild. Armstrong was judged to have not left enough room when overtaking Australian Calan Williams in the reverse-grid race. The penalty moves him from sixth position down to ninth position, costing valuable championship points. With
Toyota Racing Series
American Cameron Das has taken the reverse-grid victory in the final weekend of the Castrol Toyota Racing Series, while Liam Lawson managed to stay ahead of Marcus Armstrong in the championship fight. Petru Florescu, from Romania, held pole-position in the reverse-grid-top-eight, with Das alongside him on the front row of
Toyota Racing Series
Marcus Armstrong has taken out the first race of the New Zealand Grand Prix weekend, holding the lead from the first lap after a storming start. Armstrong overtook polesitter and championship rival Liam Lawson off the start, while Lucas Auer battled with Lawson into the first corner. Fellow kiwi Brendon
Toyota Racing Series
Castrol Toyota Racing Series rivals Liam Lawson and Marcus Armstrong were almost inseparable in Friday practice, and this continued in the first qualifying session, the pair swapping fastest times through the fifteen minute period. Lawson ultimately came out on top, setting two huge laps which cemented his pole position. "
Toyota Racing Series
I was going to write about today’s three practice sessions in the 2019 Castrol Toyota Racing Series. Practice 1 1) Liam Lawson - 1:02:501 2) Marcus Armstrong - 1:02:737 (+0.236) Practice 2 2) Marcus Armstrong - 1:03:568 9) Liam Lawson - 1:
Toyota Racing Series
Liam Lawson has been a standout performer in the 2019 Castrol Toyota Racing Series. Lawson has won four races and had nine podiums in the TRS, building a reputation for his thrilling overtakes around the outside of New Zealand’s long, sweeping, race tracks. “I mean, obviously,” says Lawson, ”it&